In what has now become a regular fall event, teams from the campus and UCSF Medical Center will participate in a statewide disaster exercise on Wednesday, Nov. 15. Coordinated with the California ...
No better way to put it. Here we are, with nature and circumstance teamed up for a natural disaster that has left Los Angeles sagging, flattened like an old party balloon, the breath sucker-punched ...
It was known as the great quake. The mere mention of the year caused Bay Area residents to shudder. The year was 1868. Once upon a time, that was considered the big one in the Bay Area. In writing on ...
The Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research (MCEER) Information Service is commemorating the 100th anniversary of the devastating 1906 earthquake with a major exhibit, "A City in ...
A bit of San Francisco magic happens before dawn every April 18 as a crowd gathers at Lotta’s Fountain to mark the anniversary of the earthquake and fires that leveled The City in 1906. Monday’s ...
Three of San Franciscos grandest hotels are survivors of what was, until Hurricane Katrina inundated New Orleans last fall, the biggest natural disaster in U.S. history. The St. Francis, the Fairmont ...
Foreword / by Paul S. Sutter -- Introduction -- Making land, making a city -- Catastrophe and its interpretations -- Bread lines and earthquake cottages -- Rebuilding and the politics of place -- ...
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